Research Catalog

Title

On first principles : being Koetschau's text of the De principiis / Origen ; translated into English together with an introduction and notes by G.W. Butterworth ; introduction to the Torchbook edition by Henri de Lubac.

Author

Origen

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, c1966.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Koetschau, Paul, 1857-1939
• Butterworth, G. W. (George William), 1879-
• Lubac, Henri de, 1896-1991

Description

lxiv, 342 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Cathedral library ; TB 311N

Uniform Title

De principiis. English. 1966

Alternative Title

• De principiis. 1966
• Origen on first principles

Subject

• 30-600
• Theology, Doctrinal > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
• Metaphysics
• Principle (Philosophy)

Genre/Form

• Commentaries
• Early works
• History

Note

• "Harper torchbooks."
• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. lix-lxi.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Book I -- I. The Father -- II. Christ -- III. The Holy Spirit -- IV. Loss, or Falling Away -- V. Rational Natures -- VI. The End or Consummation -- VII. Things Corporeal and Incorporeal -- VIII. The Angels -- Book II -- I. The World and the Creatures in it -- II. The Perpetuity of Bodily Nature -- III. The Beginning of the World and its Causes -- IV. That There is One God of the Law and the Prophets, and that the God of the Old and New Covenants is the same -- V. The Just and the Good -- VI. The Incarnation of the Saviour -- VII. That it was the same Spirit who was in Moses and the rest of the Prophets and in the Holy Apostles -- VIII. The Soul -- IX. The World, and the Movements of Rational Creatures both Good and Evil, and the Causes of these Movements -- X. Resurrection and Punishment -- XI. The Promises -- Book III -- I. Free Will -- II. How the Devil and the Opposing Powers are, according to the Scriptures, at War with the Human Race -- III. The Threefold Wisdom -- IV. Whether the Statement made by Some is True, that Each Individual has Two Souls -- V. That the World is Originated and Subject to Decay, Since it took its Beginning in Time -- VI. The End -- Book IV -- I. The Inspiration of Divine Scripture -- II. How Divine Scripture Should be Read and Interpreted -- III. The Principle Underlying the Obscurities in Divine Scripture and its Impossible or Unreasonable Character in Places, if Taken Literally -- IV. Summary of Doctrine Concerning the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

LCCN

^^^66003604^

OCLC

• 793518563
• SCSB-9981255

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library